Show MINE EXPLOSION mN CLAIM GOES GOE TO SUPREME CO U AT Utah Fuel C Company Wins Writ of Certiorari on Award Growing Out of C Castle Gate Blast In the supreme court Wednesday upon application of the Utah Fuel company by its attorney Judge Ferdinand Ericksen writ of certiorarI certiorari was granted In the case of the Utah Fuel company against the Industrial commission of Utah and John Willis by Cora Coca Wi Willis lis hl his mother the returnable on I October 6 j I Ed Willis met death In Ia the Castle CastleGate CastleGate CastleGate Gate mine explosion on March 8 1924 Cora Willis Villis on of herself hersel and and- h her r son John filed med claim against the fuel company for compensation Cora Willis claiming to be the com common on law wife of Ed Willis and that her son John was was' the adopted son of 01 Ed EdWillis EdWillis Willis Villis and so recognized by de de- de ceased AWARD MADE He Hearing was had by th the Industrial industrial industrial indus Indus- trial commission and the sum of ot i 16 per Week wa was wag awarded to John Willis for a a. period ot of weeks weel s son on the ground that he was solely dependent upon Ed Willis for sup sup- port part The commission also found that Ed Willis and Sadie Willis were married on February 19 19 1912 that on the day of the death of ofEd ofEd ofEd Ed Willis she was not divorced from him nor living with him and had not depended upon him for support that for six years ears prior to the death of E EU Ed Willis Cora Willis was living w th him as his common common cornmon com corn mon law wife On August 11 the Ute fuel company petitioned the Industrial commission commission commission commis commis- sion for a rehearing which petition petition petition peti peti- tion was denied The fuel compan company com corn pan pany in its application for a writ of certiorari declares that the commission in making its order awarding compensation acted without without with wish out or in excess of its power in that there w was wis s no testimony to sustain th the conclusion and decision of the commission that John Willis VilUs so so called but whose real name name is s sJohn John Johnson was a a. member of 01 the decedents decedent's family that the evidence shows without contradiction tion that John Willis Wa was was not a member of 01 the family of Ed Willis that there was WM relationship either by blood or marriage existing existing existing exist exist- ing between Ed Willis and the so- so called John Willis nor legal or moral right existing in the demand for support from the latter The petition further points out that at th the time of the death of 01 ofEd ofEd Ed Willis he had an un divorced wife living lIing Sadie Willis who also was an applicant for compensation lion hon and at the time of his death Ed Willis was In open and flagrant violation of ot the t laws s of the state and the precepts of ot good morals and decency living living- with the so- so o o- o called Cora Willis a married and woman the mother of the called so-called John Willis whose true name is John Johnson This Is the first cas case growing out of the Castle Gate disaster to be appealed |